Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sykko/templates/hidden
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was Delete as U1. Courcelles 06:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
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secret page Triona (talk) 00:43, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- Keep. As someone mentioned in a concurrent nomination, the RfC on hidden pages has not yet begun. Unless nominator can refer to some actual policies which dictate deletion of pages that are nominated, please do not nominate. I'd rather get up-to-date on my watchlist than being stuck at MfD assisting users from having their user pages and private notes of harm to nobody deleted by wanton nominations. __meco (talk) 07:46, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- Delete The arguments for deleting secret pages are summarized in the essay Wikipedia:Why secret pages should be deleted.
WP:UP#GAMES states that examples of unrelated content to writing an encyclopedia are "Games, roleplaying sessions, secret pages and other things pertaining to "entertainment" rather than "writing an encyclopedia". Such activities are generally frowned upon by the community. Facetious games of no educational value relevant to the project are routinely deleted at MfD." WP:NOTMYSPACE states that "[t]he focus of user pages should not be social networking or amusement, but rather providing a foundation for effective collaboration."
To the creator: in a July/August 2010 policy discussion (at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 34#Does WP:NOTMYSPACE apply to secret pages?), community consensus was that the policy Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not does prohibit secret pages. The deletion of this page is not a reflection on you; instead, it is a reflection of the changing community consensus that secret pages set an inappropriate ethos at Wikipedia. In that policy discussion, I wrote here about why all secret pages should be treated equally; whether a user social networks or does not social network on Wikipedia has no bearing on the fact that all secret pages should be deleted. Cunard (talk) 02:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- Delete No one has found this barnstar, and I'm not really concerned about keeping it around. I am no longer an active editor on Wikipedia. Part of it came from my burnout when learning about this sort of attitude about editors being social in-between their volunteer work. Since I am not around to debate against the point of it's value I have no protest against this sort of thing being enforced. I'll let you active hard working participants take care of that stuff and I'll enjoy contributing to other projects that allow me to be social instead. -Sykko-(talk to me) 05:27, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.